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“I couldn't make sense of things. But then I began the process of civilising myself and trying to become a decent human being. I'm still working on it.”

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Author:Jimmy Nail

“It is rewarding to find someone you like, but it is essential to like yourself. It is quickening to recognize that someone is a good and decent human being, but it is indispensable to view yourself as acceptable. It is a delight to discover people who are worthy of respect and admiration and love, but it is vital to believe yourself deserving of these things.”

Source: Advice from a Failure

“If someone mistakes your kindness for weakness, that's their fault - not yours. And it's OK to be a decent human being in this life.”

Ifs Humans Human Beings Mistake Kindness Weakness Faults This Life Decent One Mistake Kindness For Weakness

Author:Jeremy Piven

“A decent human being is ashamed at being somebody's boss!”

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Author:Arno Hintjens

“Everyone should know--there's no such thing as a decent human being. It's just an illusion. And when it's gone, it's really gone.”

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Book:What Goes Around: Two Books In One: Cracked Up to Be & Some Girls Are

Source: What Goes Around: Two Books In One: Cracked Up to Be & Some Girls Are

“There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies.”

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Author:Martin McDonagh

“I love the bicycle. I always have. I can think of no sincere, decent human being, male or female, young or old, saintly or sinful, who can resist the bicycle.”

Thinking Humans I Can Young Human Beings Female Males Decent Sincere Bicycle

Book:He flies through the air with the greatest of ease: a William Saroyan reader

Source: He flies through the air with the greatest of ease: a William Saroyan reader

“Political correctness is a concept invented by hard-rightwing forces to defend their right to be racist, to treat women in a degrading way and to be truly vile about gay people. They invent this idea of people who are politically correct, with a rigid, monstrous attitude to life so they can attack. But we have all had to learn to modify our language. That's all part of being a decent human being.”

“I wanted [Martin] to be a really decent human being because I didn't want to depict the cliché that a woman becomes a lesbian because her husband is terrible to her.”

Want Humans Wanted Human Beings Terrible Husband Decent

Author:Patricia Rozema

“If you give anybody the chance, they can always make a decent human being out of themselves. It's the people that don't have a chance, that we look down at like they're monsters or they're animals or that they want something different than the rest of us.”

People Ifs Want Giving Humans Looks Different Chance Human Beings Animal Monsters Decent Want Something

Author:Ice Cube

“I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.”

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Author:Karl Marlantes

“The most fitting monuments this nation can build are schoolhouses and homes for those who do the work of the world. It is no answer to say that they are accustomed to rags and hunger. In this world of plenty every human being has a right to food, clothes, decent shelter, and the rudiments of education.”

World Humans Home Nations Human Beings Answers This World Clothes Hunger Human Rights Plenty Decent Shelter Accustomed Monument Fitting Rags

Book:Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897

Source: Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897

“I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog, but I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“Our only reliable source of strength is the goodness of our hearts. Our only foundation for coming to terms with the suffering of the times is our innate need to be decent human beings.”

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Author:Sakyong Mipham